But it’s close.
When I’m scouting about for antiquarian/used erotica for purchase, I run acoss a fair amount of stuff that makes me laugh.  Ususally, we’re talking double entendre here, a type of humorous twist many people find juvenile.  However, if my first reaction is an automatic chuckle, then whatever the item is, it hit my [...]

Lately, when I’m not working on the next novel,  I’ve immersed myself in researching BDSM literature and its history.  It’s an endeavor that satisfies my inner bibliophile and collector, ever-curious facets of my mind.  I suppose it’s what I get for never seeking an advance degree beyond the B.A. I earned too long ago.
I’m never [...]

An early 19th-century pamphlet sold for over $1,700 dollars.  I’m not sure how it popped up on my radar, but it harkened back to New York City’s first major sex crime.  The listing, with minor editing on my part for readability:
THE DEVIL’S WALK THROUGH THE UNITED STATES, BY FRANK RIVERS. From the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT  found [...]

As a collector of erotica and “curiosa,” an old bibliophile’s codeword for the pornographic, I come across a lot of unusual publications. Some are historical interesting — like a rare pre-Civil War erotic novel — and some are downright silly…

One thing I want to do this year at Pursed Lips is present some occasional pieces of erotic curiosa. It might be a risque postcard or illustration, online sites where you can freely secure older works of bawdiness or naughtiness, maybe even offer a free ebook of 19th-century raciness myself.
For starters, let me present two [...]

Happy Tears Comes to Cinekink Festival
Marks Short Film Debut For Author Debra Hyde
Author Debra Hyde is pleased to announce that Cinekink – the really alternative film festival — will debut her short film “Happy Tears: A Vintage Vignette” on Saturday, October 23rd in the 7:00 pm film program. It marks the first time Hyde, better [...]

The passing of Katherine Hepburn, that is. It’s not just a shoreline story either because Hepburn grew up in Hartford. Her parents were unconventional figures in their day:

Her father, for many years the chief urologist at Hartford Hospital, attracted notice as an early advocate of public education about venereal disease.
Hepburn’s mother had an even [...]